News

Deadline for Final Entries to expire on 25 October!

Attention National Federations! The deadline for Final Entries to the 2009 Goyang World Championships expires on 25th October 2009.Send your Final Entries to the Organising Committee [email protected] with a copy to the IWF [email protected] before the deadline.

Hatch to coach USA team competing in Goyang

Gayle Hatch has been named head coach of the USA men's weightlifting team that will be competing Nov. 23 to Nov. 28 in Seoul, Korea. Hatch served as the head coach of the 2004 men's U.S. Olympic weightlifting team that competed in Athens, Greece.

Maggie Lynes’s appointment

The English Committee of the BWLA are pleased to announce the appointment of Maggie Lynes as the Weightlifting Team Manager for the 2010 Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in October 2010 in Delhi, India. Maggie was a competitor in the early 1990's winning silver medal at the 1990 European Senior Championships, and gold in the European Union 1990 and bronze in the European Union 1992. Maggie competed in the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, and was appointed Coach for the 2006 Games in Melbourne. She served as Team Manager at the Commonwealth Youth Games in India in 2008, where Zoe Smith won the gold medal. (BWLA)

Louis Martin MBE was elected as President of BWLA

The BWLA Annual General Meeting elected Louis Martin MBE as President of BWLA. Louis was an outstanding weightlifting competitor from the late 1950's to the early 1970's. During this time, Louis was four World Championship titles 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1965. Louis won silver at the 1964 Olympic Games and bronze at the 1968 Olympic Games, as well a competing in three Commonwealth Games (1962 - 1970). Louis will be a great asset to the BWLA as we enter our Centenary Year in 2010 and prepare for the Olympic Games in 2012. The Annual General Meeting approved the BWLA Annual Report and Accounts for 2008 - 2009. Mike Heath and Neil Binder were elected Vice Presidents, and Jonathan Fuller, Mark Martin, Phil Young, Louise Pennell and Steve Cannon were elected Directors of the Board. (BWLA).

Contact details of BWLA Office

The BWLA offices are relocated to Leeds with World Class Lifting; and Joyce Marufu will take full responsibility for administration services. The new address is: BWLA, 110 Cavendish, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Leeds, LS6 3QS.Telephone Number: 01138127098. The email for Joyce at present is

Qi Xihui wins women’s +75kg category at National Games

Qi Xihui of Hunan waves to the audience during the awarding ceremony for the women's weightlifting over 75kg category in the 11th Chinese National Games in Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, Oct. 20, 2009. Qi won the gold medal with a total of 324kg.